Christopher Lambert Quotes
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.
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'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
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I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.
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I don't need to work.